Adam Kowalik

Adam Kowalik (born in 24 December 1961 in Miedzno, Poland) is a Polish Roman Catholic priest.

Biography

Kowalik studied philosophy in Kraków in the 1981–1982 years and Theology in Warsaw in the 1984–1988 years. He received priestly ordination on May 6, 1989 in Seminary of Palotine Fathers (Society of the Catholic Apostolate - SAC) in Oltarzew (Warsaw). In 1990 Kowalik traveled as a missionary to Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), established himself as Parochial Vicar of the Parish of San Roque in Rio de Janeiro (city). In 1991 he was appointed first rector of the Major Pallotine Seminary in Rio de Janeiro. From 1991 to 1994 Adam Kowalik was Spiritual Director of the Major Seminary of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro. In 1994 he did his Masters in Canon Law at the Pontifical Superior Institute of Canon Law in Rio de Janeiro. In 1997 Kowalik did his International Familiar Law Doctorate at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, and at the same year studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. From 1998 to 2006 he was Pastor of the Parish Nossa Senhora dos Navegantes in Rio de Janeiro. From 1998 to 2000 Kowalik became Defensor of the Bond and Promoter of Justice in the Ecclesiastical Court in Rio de Janeiro. In 2000 he was appointed Judge of the Ecclesiastical Tribunal of the Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro. From 2006 to 2008 was named Pastor of Our Lady of Fatima Parish in Rio de Janeiro. From 2008 Kowalik was appointed chaplain of the Brotherhood of Our Lady Mother of Men in Rio de Janeiro - Centro. In the years 1999-2003 he was Professor of Family Law and from 2005 Professor of Public Law at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Superior Institute of Canon Law in Rio de Janeiro. Adam Kowalik was also professor of canon law in the Major Seminaries of Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro and Niterói and Professor of canon law at the Institute of Religious sciences in Rio de Janeiro. In 2005 he was member of the Latin American Consortium for Religious Freedom. In 2007 Kowalik was member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Canonical Law and was also a member of Editorial Board of the Panopticon - Electronic Journal of Academic Law. From 2007 to 2008 he was appointed Judge of the Ecclesiastical Tribunal of the Archdiocese of Niterói. In 2008 he became member of the International Consortium for Law and Religious Freedom.

Books

• Canon Law Family - Perspectives" Santa Maria 2003 Ed Byblos. ISBN 85-89174-13-1
• The notion of family in the recent order of the Church and International Law", Santa Maria 2004 Ed Byblos. ISBN 85-89174-19-0

Articles

• The history of the concept of marriage" In: Law & Pastoral Care, 29 (1994), ss. 51-54 ISSN 1981-7096.
• The notion of family in order of the Church", In: Law & Pastoral Care, 39 (2000), ss. 65-72 ISSN 1981-7096.
• The notion of family in international declarations and standards", In: Law & Pastoral Care, 44 (2002), ss. 7-28 ISSN 1981-7096.
• Christianity in the New Millennium", Rio de Janeiro 16.04.2004.8.
• Principles of relations between civil authority and Ecclesiastical Affairs State Church in particular the Brazilian legislation.", In: Colloquium V del Consorcio Latinoamericano Religious Libertad - 17-19.10.2005, Ed Imagen y Graphic SA de CV, Mexico DF, 2006, ss. 253-268.
• Limits on the exercise of religious freedom in the media in Brazil", Rio de Janeiro 2006 (Media and Religion - legal vision, VI Conference of the Latin American Consortium of Religious Freedom, Rio de Janeiro, 27-29.09.2006).
• The Law on Religious Freedom in Brazil - particularly Religious Education in Public Schools" (The 1981 UN Declaration on Religious Tolerance and Non - Discrimination: Implementing Its Principles After Twenty-five Years, A Symposium Held at Brigham Young University, Provo Utah 1-3.10.2006).
• Religious freedom in the new millennium", Rio de Janeiro 2006.
• Marriage and Family in canon law", In: Jus Navegandi, year 11, no. 1375 7 April 2007. 1518-486211 ISSN.
• Effect of religious civil marriage in Brazil yesterday and today. In: Legal Framework, Rio Grande, 41, May 31, 2007.
• Notions of Family Law", In: Panopticon, Win, Year 1, n.9 July - August 2007. 1980-777513 ISSN.
• Benedykt XVI i katolicyzm brazylijski", In: Kosciól.pl, year 2007.
• Karnawał w Rio de Janeiro - refleksje", In: Kosciól.pl year 2008.

Translations

• Joan Carreras - Marriage: Sex, Party and direito - São Paulo 2004 Ed Loyola. ISBN 85-15-02903-0.
• Libero Gerosa - The interpretation of the Law in the Church (Principles, paradigms, perspectives) - São Paulo 2004 Ed Loyola. ISBN 85-15-03149-3.
• Karol Wojtyła - Family as "personarum communio" in Communio (2003), ISSN: 0101-7942.

Awards

On 29 November 2004 Kowalik received the diploma "Motion" of the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro for social work in the Complexo da Maré in Rio de Janeiro, made in the years 1998-2004. On 10 July 2006 received the title "Paul Harris Fellow" in recognition of the provision of tangible and significant services with the aim of promoting understanding and friendly relations among peoples of the world offered by the Rotary Foundation of Rotary Internacional.

Bibliography

• Zdzisław Malczewski, requested not only to patricians - Polish missionaries in Brazil, Curitiba 2001 Ed Vicentina Ltda, p. 137.

External links

• http://adamkowalik.tripod.com/, personal page

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